Once I got it setup, I was surprised at how long it took the Kindle Fire emulator to boot the OS. It took more than 5 minutes to boot HDX 7, and more than 15 minutes before I was able to interact with it and see my hello world SDL OpenGL app run. Even then, it was sluggish and choppy. My other Android emulator devices did not have this problem. Possibly part of the problem is the screen resolution.

I found this alternative post about improving performance:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1554099/slow-android-emulator?rq=1This post suggests to use the snapshot feature. However, you have to pick either snapshot or use host GPU (not both). So here are two options:A) use snapshot feature without host GPU => this makes the emulator load faster (instead of having to boot)B) boot the emulator once with use host GPU, and leave it open